Waldock, George Herbert

George was born in February 1980 at Ashwell, Herfordshire, the only son of Charles and Bertha (nee Barton) Waldock who were born in Ashwell but lived in London.

George enlisted at Hounslow and was a Lance Corporal with the 1^st Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Regimental Number 12046.  The 1911 census shows him already a Lance Corporal with the Royal Fusiliers at the Aldershot Barracks. He served in the Western European Theatre of War, France and Flanders and was killed in action at Fleur Baix, France on 25 October 1914.

 George was awarded the 1914 Star, the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.

He is commemorated on the Hinxworth War Memorial.It appears that in 1923 Bertha was living in Hinxworth.

Information from the family states that George was a pupil at the Merchant Taylors School in Ashwell although he does not appear on the St Mary’s Church Roll of Honour nor is he commemorated on the Ashwell War Memorial.

Further information on the subject of ‘George Waldock’  has come from Kathy Ferguson whose great uncle was Herbert George Waldock.

She has discovered that George Herbert Waldock was born in Ashwell in 1890 but moved to Tottenham with his family as a child. He was a lance corporal in the 1st Battalion, London Regiment and was killed in action on 25 October 1914. His residence in Tottenham probably explains why, although an old boy of the Merchant Taylors School, there is no mention of him on the Ashwell memorial